Hi Clay,

I wish browsers were a little smarter about such things! (Of late,
I've taken to having all text files have extension .txt. But 'probes.dat'
existed before I started running into the problem.)

Try downloading this (same file, except with the name .txt instead of .dat) :

http://www.projectpluto.com/probes.txt

Then save it to your Guide folder, changing the '.txt' to '.dat' when
you do so. Should get you around the problem.

-- Bill

On 11/11/2015 02:32 PM, 'P. Clay Sherrod' drclay@... [guide-user] wrote:
> Hi Bill....this file is attempting to save only as a webpage and not a .dat file.
> How can it be converted to a true .dat file or .txt file and be saved to work in
> Guide?
>
>
> Clay
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> From: "Bill Gray pluto@... [guide-user]" <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 1:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [guide-user] How to see the object WT1190F guide 9?
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>> On 11/11/2015 06:59 AM, pastorgalactico@... [guide-user] wrote:
>>> I wonder how to get the ephemeris of this object; WT1190F
>>>
>>> How would come represented in guide 9?
>>>
>>> Asteroid or satellite. ?
>>
>> (For those wondering what WT1190F is: briefly, it's a bit of
>> unidentified space junk that will re-enter just south of Sri Lanka
>> on Friday. I've been involved a fair bit with figuring out where
>> and when it will hit, and what it is. More details at :
>>
>> http://www.projectpluto.com/temp/wt1190f.htm
>>
>> I was about to provide a long explanation of why you can't do this.
>> Then I figured out a way to do it.
>>
>> Download this file into your Guide folder :
>>
>> http://www.projectpluto.com/probes.dat
>>
>> This will provide WT1190F, displayed as a satellite, for times
>> from November 1 until impact. The accuracy will be within a few
>> arcminutes for now until impact. (The error is because Guide is
>> assuming a simple elliptical motion around the earth. It gets a
>> little more accuracy by using three sets of elements; it picks the
>> "best" elements for the currently specified time.)
>>
>> -- Bill
>>
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